On the use of bootstrap with variational inference: theory, interpretation, and a two-sample test example

DOI10.1214/18-AOAS1169zbMath1405.62165arXiv1711.11057WikidataQ129462751 ScholiaQ129462751MaRDI QIDQ1624811

Yen-Chi Chen, Elena A. Erosheva, Y. Samuel Wang

Publication date: 16 November 2018

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11057

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapBayesian inferencetwo-sample testvariational inferenceincreasing dimensionmultivariate binary datamixed membership modelfunctional disability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40)

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